UCI Men's road racing world ranking

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UCI Men's road racing world ranking
Tadej Pogačar from UAE Team Emirates
(current No.1 with record 141 weeks on top)
SportRoad bicycle racing
FoundedYear-End Individual:
(October 1948)
Year-End Team:
(1984–2018)
Year-End Nation:
(October 1996)
Individual & Nation Weekly:
(10 January 2016)
Team Weekly:
(13 January 2019)
Official websiteuci.org

The UCI men's road racing world rankings are a point system which is used to rank men's road cycling riders. Points are accrued over a rolling 52 weeks in three categories (Individual, Nations and Teams).

Also Year-End rankings exist, based on 12-month period in both Individual and Nations categories. All points available are determined on the importance level and for its prestige at each race.

Current ranking system[edit]

UCI World Ranking[edit]

On 10 January 2016, a complete new 52-week rolling basis ranking system was introduced in road cycling, incorporating both World Tour and Continental Circuit races.

Category Summary
Individual This ranking system is calculated on a 52-week rolling basis, rankings are updated each Tuesday. The ranking at the end of the calendar year will be utilised to award an annual winner.
Unlike previous ranking systems the UCI World Classification will include all male riders from the World Tour down to U23 riders. Points will be awarded on all races from World Tour level down to 1.2 and 2.2 races.
Nations This is based on the world ranking with the best eight riders from each country contributing towards their nation's overall score. Rankings are updated each Tuesday.
UCI WorldTour This is the UCI WorldTour ranking of riders, teams and nations taking part in the events of the UCI WorldTour. Only riders being part of a UCI WorldTeam obtain points in UCI WorldTour races.
Continental There will be subsets of rankings which are made up from points scored in non-World Tour races (i.e., UCI Europe Tour, UCI Asia Tour etc.) for individuals, teams and nations.
This will therefore allow one rider to appear in more than one ranking, for example a rider who won Strade Bianchi and a stage in the Tour of California would be part of the Europe Tour and America Tour rankings.

Year-end previous ranking systems[edit]

Between 1948 and 2016 all rankings were Year-End, with no similarity to complete new 52 weeks system introduced in 2016:

Challenge Desgrange-Colombo (1948–1958)[edit]

Year-end ranking included Giro d'Italia, Tour de France, Vuelta a España, Milan–San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Lombardia, Paris–Tours, Paris–Brussels and Tour de Suisse.

Riders must have participated in at least one of the three races in each organizing country (Belgium, France and Italy) to appear in the top season rider final classification.

Super Prestige Pernod (1959–1987)[edit]

It was the Challenge Desgrange-Colombo successor ranking. It rewarded the season best rider who had been the most consistent in the biggest races (points were awarded over the entire cycling season).

Ranking was divided into three categories: Super Prestige Pernod (the best rider of the year), Prestige Pernod (the best French rider) and Pernod Promotion (the best French under 25).

FICP/UCI Road World Rankings (1984–2004)[edit]

Ranking was designating the best cyclist of the season. It was organized by Professional Cycling Federation (FICP) from the 1984 to 1992 and by Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) from 1993 to 2004.

UCI Road World Cup (1989–2004)[edit]

UCI Road World Cup system that operated from 1989-2004, was successor of Super Prestige Pernod. It consisted of ten one-day events, designating the best rider of the season.

UCI Pro Tour (2005–2010)[edit]

UCI ProTour ranking (and the second-tier UCI Continental Circuits) was successor of UCI Road World Cup. It was a series of road bicycle races in Europe, Australia and Canada designating the best rider of the season.

The ProTour rankings were replaced with a World Ranking system for 2009-2010, though this only considered a small number of ProTour and other high-prestige races, and was then merged into the World Tour in 2011.

UCI World Tour (2011–2018)[edit]

UCI World Tour ranking merged with ex UCI ProTour ranking in 2011. It was designating the best rider and the best team of the season between 2009 and 2018; and the best nation of the season between 2009 and 2016.

UCI Stage Race World RankingUCI One Day Race World RankingUCI World RankingUCI World TourUCI Oceania TourUCI Europe TourUCI Asia TourUCI America TourUCI Africa TourUCI ProTourUCI Road World CupUCI Road World RankingsSuper Prestige Pernod InternationalChallenge Desgrange-Colombo

Current world rankings[edit]

Riders (as of 26 March 2024)
Rank Rider Team Points Prev. Move
1 Slovenia Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates 7458 1 Steady
2 Denmark Jonas Vingegaard Visma–Lease a Bike 6350.5 2 Steady
3 Belgium Remco Evenepoel Soudal–Quick-Step 5677.57 3 Steady
4 Denmark Mads Pedersen Lidl–Trek 5314 5 Increase 1
5 Belgium Jasper Philipsen Alpecin–Deceuninck 5017 7 Increase 2
6 Slovenia Primož Roglič Bora–Hansgrohe 4392.36 4 Decrease 2
7 Belgium Wout Van Aert Visma–Lease a Bike 4210 6 Decrease 1
8 Netherlands Mathieu van der Poel Alpecin–Deceuninck 3940 9 Increase 1
9 United Kingdom Adam Yates UAE Team Emirates 3821.43 8 Decrease 1
10 Switzerland Marc Hirschi UAE Team Emirates 3189 10 Steady

Ranking timeline and statistics[edit]

List of number one ranked riders[edit]

No. Rider Team Start date End date Weeks Total
1 New Zealand Jason Christie Kenyan Riders Downunder January 10, 2016 January 17, 2016 2 2
2 Australia Simon Gerrans Orica–GreenEDGE January 24, 2016 March 6, 2016 7 7
3 Australia Richie Porte BMC Racing Team March 13, 2016 March 13, 2016 1 1
4 Belgium Greg Van Avermaet BMC Racing Team March 20, 2016 March 20, 2016 1 1
5 Slovakia Peter Sagan Tinkoff (2016)
Bora–Hansgrohe (2017)
March 27, 2016 April 2, 2017 54 54
Belgium Greg Van Avermaet (2) BMC Racing Team April 9, 2017 February 25, 2018 47 48
6 United Kingdom Chris Froome Team Sky March 4, 2018 April 8, 2018 6 6
Slovakia Peter Sagan (2) Bora–Hansgrohe April 15, 2018 May 20, 2018 6 60
United Kingdom Chris Froome (2) Team Sky May 27, 2018 July 15, 2018 8 14
Slovakia Peter Sagan (3) Bora–Hansgrohe July 22, 2018 September 16, 2018 9 69
7 Spain Alejandro Valverde Movistar Team September 23, 2018 March 17, 2019 26 26
8 France Julian Alaphilippe Deceuninck–Quick-Step March 24, 2019 September 8, 2019 25 25
9 Slovenia Primož Roglič Team Jumbo–Visma September 15, 2019 March 17, 2020 27 27
UCI World Ranking frozen due to COVID-19
March 24, 2020 July 28, 2020 19 19
Slovenia Primož Roglič Team Jumbo–Visma August 4, 2020 October 20, 2020 12 39
10 Slovenia Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates October 27, 2020 November 3, 2020 2 2
Slovenia Primož Roglič (2) Team Jumbo–Visma November 10, 2020 July 13, 2021 36 75
Slovenia Tadej Pogačar (2) UAE Team Emirates July 20, 2021 September 7, 2021 8 10
11 Belgium Wout van Aert Team Jumbo–Visma September 14, 2021 September 21, 2021 2 2
Slovenia Tadej Pogačar (3) UAE Team Emirates September 28, 2021 March 26, 2024 131 141

last update: 26 March 2024

Total weeks at No. 1[edit]

Rank Rider Weeks
1 Slovenia Tadej Pogačar 141
2 Slovenia Primož Roglič 75
3 Slovakia Peter Sagan 69
4 Belgium Greg Van Avermaet 48
5 Spain Alejandro Valverde 26
6 France Julian Alaphilippe 25
7 United Kingdom Chris Froome 14
8 Australia Simon Gerrans 7
9 New Zealand Jason Christie 2
Belgium Wout van Aert 2
11 Australia Richie Porte 1
Rank Nation Weeks
1 Belgium Belgium 272
2 France France 78
3 Italy Italy 37
4 Slovenia Slovenia 13
5 Australia Australia 8
6 New Zealand New Zealand 2
last update: 26 March 2024

List of number one ranked nations[edit]

No. Team Start date End date Weeks Total
1 New Zealand New Zealand January 10, 2016 January 17, 2016 2 2
2 Australia Australia January 24, 2016 February 28, 2016 6 6
3 Italy Italy March 6, 2016 March 6, 2016 1 1
Australia Australia (2) March 13, 2016 March 20, 2016 2 8
4 Belgium Belgium March 27, 2016 April 24, 2016 5 5
5 France France May 1, 2016 February 19, 2017 43 43
Belgium Belgium (2) February 26, 2017 March 5, 2017 2 7
France France (2) March 12, 2017 March 19, 2017 2 45
Belgium Belgium (3) March 26, 2017 October 9, 2017 29 36
Italy Italy (2) October 16, 2017 October 16, 2017 1 2
Belgium Belgium (4) October 23, 2017 January 21, 2018 14 50
Italy Italy (3) January 28, 2018 January 28, 2018 1 3
Belgium Belgium (5) February 4, 2018 February 4, 2018 1 51
Italy Italy (4) February 11, 2018 February 11, 2018 1 4
Belgium Belgium (6) February 18, 2018 February 18, 2019 1 52
Italy Italy (5) February 25, 2018 September 2, 2018 28 32
Belgium Belgium (7) September 9, 2018 March 17, 2019 28 80
France France (3) March 24, 2019 April 7, 2019 3 48
Belgium Belgium (8) April 14, 2019 April 28, 2019 3 83
France France (4) May 5, 2019 May 5, 2019 1 49
Belgium Belgium (9) May 12, 2019 May 19, 2019 2 85
France France (5) May 26, 2019 June 9, 2019 3 52
Belgium Belgium (10) June 16, 2019 June 16, 2019 1 86
France France (6) June 23, 2019 June 23, 2019 1 53
Belgium Belgium (11) June 30, 2019 July 21, 2019 4 90
France France (7) July 28, 2019 August 11, 2019 3 56
Belgium Belgium (12) August 18, 2019 March 17, 2020 31 121
Ranking frozen
March 24, 2020 July 28, 2020 19 19
Italy Italy (6) August 4, 2020 August 4, 2020 1 33
Belgium Belgium (13) August 11, 2020 August 18, 2020 2 123
Italy Italy (7) August 25, 2020 September 15, 2020 4 37
6 Slovenia Slovenia September 22, 2020 November 3, 2020 7 7
France France (8) November 10, 2020 March 16, 2021 19 75
Slovenia Slovenia (2) March 23, 2021 March 30, 2021 2 9
Belgium Belgium (14) April 6, 2021 April 6, 2021 1 124
Slovenia Slovenia (3) April 13, 2021 April 13, 2021 1 10
Belgium Belgium (15) April 20, 2021 May 4, 2021 3 127
France France (9) May 11, 2021 May 25, 2021 3 78
Belgium Belgium (16) June 1, 2021 March 29, 2022 44 171
Slovenia Slovenia (4) April 5, 2022 April 19, 2022 3 13
Belgium Belgium (17) April 26, 2022 March 26, 2024 101 272

last update: 26 March 2024

Year-end UCI World Rankings[edit]

The following is a list of Top 3 riders, teams and nations at the end of each season:[1]

Individual Ranking
Year 1st 2nd 3rd
2023 Slovenia Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
7695.86 pts Denmark Jonas Vingegaard
Team Jumbo–Visma
6304.07 pts Belgium Remco Evenepoel
Soudal–Quick-Step
5631.71 pts
2022 Slovenia Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
5131 pts Belgium Wout van Aert
Team Jumbo–Visma
4525 pts Belgium Remco Evenepoel
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team
4402.5 pts
2021 Slovenia Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
5363 pts Belgium Wout van Aert
Team Jumbo–Visma
4382 pts Slovenia Primož Roglič
Team Jumbo–Visma
3924 pts
2020 Slovenia Primož Roglič
Team Jumbo–Visma
4237 pts Slovenia Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
3055 pts Belgium Wout van Aert
Team Jumbo–Visma
2700 pts
2019 Slovenia Primož Roglič
Team Jumbo–Visma
4705.28 pts France Julian Alaphilippe
Deceuninck–Quick-Step
3569.95 pts Denmark Jakob Fuglsang
Astana
3472.5 pts
2018 Spain Alejandro Valverde
Movistar Team
4168 pts United Kingdom Simon Yates
Mitchelton–Scott
3160 pts Italy Elia Viviani
Quick-Step Floors
3106 pts
2017 Belgium Greg Van Avermaet
BMC Racing Team
4148 pts United Kingdom Chris Froome
Team Sky
3692 pts Slovakia Peter Sagan
Bora–Hansgrohe
3344 pts
2016 Slovakia Peter Sagan
Tinkoff
5359 pts United Kingdom Chris Froome
Team Sky
3771 pts Belgium Greg Van Avermaet
BMC Racing Team
3711.25 pts
2011-2015 see UCI World Tour
2010 Spain Joaquim Rodriguez
Team Katusha
561 pts Belgium Philippe Gilbert
Omega Pharma–Lotto
437 pts Spain Luis León Sánchez
Caisse d'Epargne
413 pts
2009 Spain Alberto Contador
Astana
527 pts Spain Alejandro Valverde
Caisse d'Epargne
483 pts Spain Samuel Sánchez
Euskaltel–Euskadi
357 pts
Team Ranking
Year 1st 2nd 3rd
2023 United Arab Emirates UAE Team Emirates 30170.18 pts Netherlands Team Jumbo–Visma 29177.45 pts Belgium Soudal–Quick-Step 18529.85 pts
2022 Netherlands Team Jumbo–Visma 15003.5 pts United Arab Emirates UAE Team Emirates 13323 pts United Kingdom Ineos Grenadiers 12494 pts
2021 Belgium Deceuninck–Quick-Step 15641.21 pts United Kingdom Ineos Grenadiers 14998.66 pts Netherlands Team Jumbo–Visma 12914.67 pts
2020 Netherlands Team Jumbo–Visma 9919 pts Belgium Deceuninck–Quick-Step 9776.16 pts United Arab Emirates UAE Team Emirates 8503 pts
2019 Belgium Deceuninck–Quick-Step 14835.15 pts Germany Bora–Hansgrohe 14192.86 pts Netherlands Team Jumbo–Visma 13128.07 pts
Nation Ranking
Year 1st 2nd 3rd
2023  Belgium 22800.71 pts  Denmark 18669.98 pts  Slovenia 16501.34 pts
2022  Belgium 17901.5 pts  Spain 11845.5 pts  France 11774 pts
2021  Belgium 14289.33 pts  Slovenia 11983 pts  France 11536.67 pts
2020  France 9542.83 pts  Slovenia 8824 pts  Belgium 8530 pts
2019  Belgium 13491.09 pts  Italy 11747.48 pts  Netherlands 11388.14 pts
2018  Belgium 14502.02 pts  France 13628.12 pts  Italy 12142.76 pts
2017  Belgium 14600 pts  Italy 13938 pts  France 12123 pts
2016  France 13007 pts  Belgium 12483.25 pts  Italy 11922 pts

Explanation of the ranking points system[edit]

UCI events[edit]

Points hierarchy for overall placings[edit]

UCI WorldTour UCI Continental Tours
Rank Tour de
France
Giro,
Vuelta
Monu
ments
Cat.4

Santos Tour Down Under, Paris–Nice, Tirreno–Adriatico, Gent–Wevelgem in Flanders Fields, Amstel Gold Race, Critérium du Dauphiné, Tour de Romandie, Tour de Suisse, Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal

Cat.5

Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, E3 Harelbeke, Itzulia Basque Country, La Flèche Wallonne, Clasica Ciclista San Sebastian, Tour de Pologne, Binck Bank Tour, EuroEyes Cyclassics Hamburg, Bretagne Classic – Ouest-France

Cat.6

Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, UAE Tour, Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Strade Bianche, Driedaagse Brugge - De Panne, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey, Eschborn-Frankfurt, Amgen Tour of California, Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic, Gree – Tour of Guangxi

Pro
Series
1.1
2.1
1.2
2.2
1.2U
2.2U
Nations
Cup
de l’Avenir
Nations
Cup
1 1300 1100 800 500 400 300 200 125 40 30 140 70
2 1040 885 640 400 320 250 150 85 30 25 110 55
3 880 750 520 325 260 215 125 70 25 20 80 40
4 750 600 440 275 220 175 100 60 20 15 60 30
5 620 495 360 225 180 120 85 50 15 10 50 25
6 520 415 280 175 140 115 70 40 10 5 40 20
7 425 340 240 150 120 95 60 35 5 3 30 15
8 360 285 200 125 100 75 50 30 3 1 20 10
9 295 235 160 100 80 60 40 25 10 5
10 230 180 135 85 68 50 35 20 6 3
11 190 155 110 70 56 40 30 15 3
12 165 130 95 60 48 35 25 10
13 140 110 85 50 40 30 20 5
14 110 90 65 40 32 25 15
15 100 80 55 35 28 20 10
16 90 75 50 30 24 5 3 1
17 85 70
18 80 60
19 70 55
20 60 50
21 40 30 20 16 12
22
23
24
25
26 40 30
27
28
29
30
31–40 35 25 15 10 8 5 3
41–50 25 20
51–55 20 15 10 5 4 2
56–60 15 10 5 3 2 1

Prologue and stage placing points hierarchy[edit]

Stage placing Tour de France Giro d'Italia
Vuelta a España
Major World Tour Events
Santos Tour Down Under, Paris–Nice, Tirreno–Adriatico, Tour de Romandie, Critérium du Dauphiné, Tour de Suisse
Medium World Tour Events

Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, Itzulia Basque Country, Tour de Pologne, Binck Bank Tour

Minor World Tour Events
UAE Tour, Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey, Eschborn-Frankfurt, Amgen Tour of California, Gree – Tour of Guangxi
HC events 2.1 events 2.2 events 2.2U events Nations Cup Tour de l’Avenir Nations Cup events
1 120 100 60 50 40 20 14 7 5 15 12
2 50 40 25 20 15 10 5 3 1 9 8
3 25 20 10 8 6 5 3 1 5 4
4 15 12
5 5 4

Secondary classification (points and mountains competitions) hierarchy for final position[edit]

Position Tour de France Giro d'Italia
Vuelta a España
1 120 100
2 50 40
3 25 20

Wearing the race leaders jersey[edit]

Tour de France Giro d'Italia
Vuelta a España
Major World Tour Events

Santos Tour Down Under, Paris–Nice, Tirreno–Adriatico, Tour de Romandie, Critérium du Dauphiné, Tour de Suisse

Medium World Tour Events

Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, Itzulia Basque Country, Tour de Pologne, Binck Bank Tour

Minor World Tour Events

UAE Tour, Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey, Eschborn-Frankfurt, Amgen Tour of California, Gree – Tour of Guangxi

HC events 2.1 events 2.2 events 2.2U events Nations Cup Tour de l’Avenir Nations Cup events
Points per day 25 20 10 8 6 5 3 1 1 2 1

Other events[edit]

Points for World, Olympic, Continental and National Championships[edit]

World Championships
Olympic Games
U23 World Championships Continental Championships
Continental Games
U23 Continental Championships National Championships U23 National Championships
Relative position Road Race Time Trial Road Race Time Trial Road Race Time Trial Road Race Time Trial Road Race – A Road Race – B Time Trial – A Time Trial – B Road Race Time Trial
1 600 350 200 125 250 70 125 50 100 50 50 25 50 25
2 475 250 150 85 200 55 85 30 75 30 30 15 30 15
3 400 200 125 70 150 40 70 20 60 20 20 10 20 10
4 325 150 100 60 125 30 60 15 50 15 15 5 15 5
5 275 125 85 50 100 25 50 10 40 10 10 3 10 3
6 225 100 70 40 90 20 40 5 30 5 5 5
7 175 85 60 35 80 15 35 3 20 3 3 3
8 150 70 50 30 70 10 30 10
9 125 60 40 25 60 5 25 1 5 1 1 1
10 100 50 35 20 50 3 20 3
11 85 40 30 15 40 15
12 70 30 25 10 35 10 1
13 60 25 20 5 30 5
14 50 20 15 25
15 40 15 10 20
16 35 10 5 3 15 3
17 30 5 10
18 5
19
20
21
22 20
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31 3 3
32 10
33
34
35
36–40 1
41–50
51–55 5
56–60 3

Team Time Trial Championships[edit]

Relative Position World Championships Continental Championships
1 500 70
2 400 55
3 325 40
4 275 30
5 225 25
6 175 20
7 150 15
8 125 10
9 100 5
10 85 3
11 70
12 60
13–15 50
16–20 30
21–25 25

Source:[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Rankings". UCI.
  2. ^ "UCI CYCLING REGULATIONS - PART 2 ROAD RACES" (PDF). UCI.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2018. Retrieved 30 October 2018.

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